Assistance Listing 16.742
Department of Justice · Office of Justice Programs
Assistance Listing 16.742, “Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Grant Program,” is a federal program administered by Department of Justice. It provides grant assistance. GrantsJunction currently tracks 2 open, 0 forecasted and 13 closed opportunities under this listing.
Program goal(s) name: Improve forensic science and medical examiner/coroner services. Program goal(s) description: Demonstrate improvement over current operations in forensic science or medical examiner/coroner services, including services provided by laboratories. Reduction in forensic analysis backlogs is considered an improvement in timeliness of services. Program objective(s) name: Educate forensic pathologists and eliminate backlogs. Program objective(s) description: Educate and train forensic pathologists; eliminate a backlog in the analysis of forensic science evidence, including backlog with respect to firearms examination, latent prints, impression evidence, toxicology, digital evidence, fire evidence, controlled substances, forensic pathology, questioned documents, and trace evidence; train, assist, and employ forensic laboratory personnel and medicolegal death investigators, as needed, to eliminate such a backlog; and fund medicolegal death investigation systems to facilitate accreditation of medical examiner and coroner offices and certification of medicolegal death investigators.
As published in the SAM.gov Assistance Listing.
Program-level eligibility from SAM.gov. Each funding notice sets its own requirements.
Range and average of financial assistance (from the listing): In amounts consistent with the applicant's proposed project and BJA's plans, priorities and levels of financing.
Source: SAM.gov Assistance Listing 16.742. Hatched bars are agency estimates. These totals do not indicate approval rates.16.742 is the Assistance Listing Number for “Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Grant Program.” Assistance Listing Numbers (formerly CFDA numbers) identify federal assistance programs; individual grant opportunities reference the listing they are funded under.
The SAM.gov listing names these applicant types: Other. Each funding notice under the program sets its own eligibility, so check the specific opportunity.